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Nina's Books of Little Things (Art & Design)
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This book, which shows Haring at his imaginative, exuberant, and brilliant best, has established itself as bestseller the world over with 30,000 copies sold, and is now available once again.
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Nina's Book has such innocence, enthusiasm and vitality........1998-12-07
It's sort of a cross between a journal and a sketchbook, with drawings by Haring and lots of space for a child's own drawings and thoughts. I gave it to my son a couple of years ago. To be honest, he didn't get off on it, so a couple of days ago I asked if he would be willing to pass it on to his 9 year old sister, and she's been working on it ever since. I'd ignore Amazon's age recommendations. It's good for the artistically inclined, especially girls, up to at least age 11 or 12.
Great for kids of all ages.......1998-06-26
Keith Haring's book is wonderful! Kids can write their own stories, draw their own pictures and collect their own treasures in this beautiful giant book. Haring's drawings and funny comments make this fun to read even without your child's input. My nieces and nephews (from age 6 to 12) immediately started writing and drawing and couldn't put their "Big Books" down! It's a book they will always treasure, because they wrote most of it themselves!
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Best book bought on oil painting ever~.......2006-03-16
Can not express enough how this book can teach you to paint~
Fur techniques alone are more than the cost of book~
Have many painting books,Walter Foster,Grumbacher so on.
Yes~ this is a must have~The book is done so well all the way from first page to last~Enjoy all the cute pictures.
And very easy to learn method.Peggy Harris her lifelong love of animals shows.
And she really teachs you.
Hats Off!
painting baby animal treasures.......2002-01-23
i like peggy's books and vidio's, but i had a bit of trouble, what is the substitude for turp if you are painting with acrylicks, it was not clear in this book and the first book only covered oil paint,
(background as well as the painting proccess it self).
like you'r books and vidio's and hope you keep us happy with more in the future.
a loyal fan
Painting Baby Animals with Peggy Harris.......2000-03-26
Great instructions for the novice! I have never painted with oils in my life, but bought this book and got the nerve to give it a try. My first attempt turned out very nice and even professional looking! I painted the "Rub-a-dub Pup" Very cute and not difficult! I can't wait to try another "Harris Creature" DON"T BE PUT OFF BY THE BEAUTY OF THE COVER PICTURE! Peggy Harris' technique and easy to follow instructions make anything simple and fun. (Not to mention very sastifying!) Also, she uses many household items that cut down on purchasing many expensive "artsy" items! Give this one a try; I don't see how anyone who does so can fail! Have fun & good luck, PS My husband said this FIRST TRY is actually good enough to sell in an arts & craft show!
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Painting Baby Animal Treasurers.......2003-09-28
A fantastic book with step by step instructions that are very easy to follow.
A great step by step.......2000-12-01
This is a wonderful book for painters with clear step by steps for each of the painting projects. Oh...and who wouldn't go ooh and ah over the vute baby animals! There is a wonderful kitten, cute buppy, birds falling from their next and other such delights. I am pleased to have it sitting in my library of ideas and techniques. That is the main advantage of this book and how it is presented...the techniques used are clearly shown.
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Typologies: 9 Contemporary Photographers
Marc Freidus
Manufacturer: Newport Harbor Art Museum
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Cat Shit One 2 (Shonen)
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The earlier Film Noir Readers, which now boast a combined sale of well over 30,000 copies, have all quite deliberately conveyed a sweeping overview of the classic period, demonstrating how broad and inclusive noir movies are. Film Noir Reader 4 moves in a different direction. Its purpose is to identify the key films and motifs of noir and to analyze in depth the prototypical pictures that, while vivid examples of certain cinematic themes, bend and break their molds to find new ways to enthrall and frighten us. Like its predecessors, Film Noir Reader 4 is generously illustrated and features essays by such respected film critics and scholars as Robin Wood, J.P. Telotte, R. Barton Palmer, and Robert Porfirio. All have as their purpose to explain why and how these classic films work; the way screenplay, direction, acting, cinematography, editing and all the other filmmaking crafts blended together to produce work that exemplifies both a particular movement in film history and the innovations that keep the noir style fresh and compelling.
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Empty Streets and Shadowy Lighting.......2006-11-06
All in all, this is a worthy collection of two dozen or so essays on empty streets, shadowy lighting, calculating women, and doomed men, otherwise known as film noir. Why these cinematic downers keep commanding the scholarly attention they get is itself a matter of curious conjecture. But they do, and there must be a readership as this fourth entry in the publishing cycle demonstrates. I was prepared to pass this one up, figuring everything that needs saying has been said. But then I'm as hooked on the Walter Neffs and Kathie Moffetts of the world as the contributors are; so here I am, 20 bucks or so poorer, but reasonably happy with the deal.
Sure, in the eyes of the beholder some essays are bound to be of lesser interest or quality than others. I myself wonder about the future of the project when it includes such diminishing returns as an essay on the trivia of title sequences, or the `noir-izing' of a technicolor western like Rancho Notorious. However, unlike reviewer Mira, I don't fault the authors for standard high-brow terminology like "capitalist patriarchy" or `misogyny"-- though I do fault the editors (not the authors) for failing to footnote such real esoterica as "diagetic" and "syntagmatic". Come on, Mira, no one picks up the fourth installment of a series like this expecting the prose level of Photoplay. Then too, Mira, just which contributors are guilty of "absurd ideological readings". You need to specify. Worse-- why are these readings "absurd'? That's a pretty strong charge, and you've got a thousand words to back it up. Otherwise, it looks like an ungrounded cheap shot, and who knows, maybe you can convince me in the process.
As two of those presumably ideological essays stand, Hodges's and Humphrey's, respectively, they make a lot of sense to me. Hodges shows how war-time noir differs from post-war noir and how these changes reflect larger national happenings, while Humphries argues that post-war noir eventually fell victim to Cold War needs and what he calls the "liberal consensus". Humphries, in particular, makes provocative and well-reasoned points for anyone with interests beyond what's there on the movie screen. And as far as that goes, I would surmise both writers, with the concerns they have, lean toward the political left ( which I suspect is what really bothers reviewer Mira). But then, the dark side of noir has long attracted those suspicious of a social order where wealth stands as the ordering principle and people lacking that are left to dangle. Anyhow, #4 stands in my book as a worthy addition to the series, and I'll likely fork over another 20 or so if there's a #5.
Some Solid History & Some Silly Dogmatizing........2005-04-05
As Alain Silver explains in the book's Introduction, "Film Noir Reader 4" is different in purpose from the previous Film Noir Readers. It focuses on key films and key themes, rather than attempting to be inclusive or comprehensive. In that spirit, Silver has included a few lists of the most important film noirs according to himself and others in the Introduction. "Film Noir Reader 4" contains 23 mostly modern essays, many apparently not previously published, presented in two parts. The paper the book is printed on is pure white, instead of the off-white of previous volumes, so the black-and-white stills look better.
Part I, "Case Studies", includes 12 essays on key films. The films discussed are: "Double Indemnity", "Detour", "The Big Sleep", "Out of the Past", "The Unsuspected", "Gun Crazy", "D.O.A", "The Big Night", "Kiss Me Deadly", "The Big Heat", "The Big Combo", and "Touch of Evil". Glenn Erickson's enthusiastic and insightful essay "Fate Seeks the Loser: Edgar G. Ulmer's Detour" is particularly interesting. The same can be said for Kevin Hagopian's study of "The Big Sleep" and Stephen B. Armstrong's history of "Touch of Evil". Both films were radically altered by recuts, with the result of making them nonsensical. These carefully researched essays explain what was changed and why.
Part II focuses on "Noir Themes", although I don't think that most of these can reasonably be called "key" themes. Eleven essays discuss a variety of themes that can be found or projected upon classic noir films, including psychodrama, images of women, noir antecedents, horror-noir, war noirs, left-wing politics in noir and crime films, hybrid noir-westerns, and noir title sequences. In other words, Part II is a catch-all. "Cat People", "Rancho Notorious" (in comparison to "The Big Heat"), and "Double Indemnity" are discussed in the most depth.
I'm giving "Film Noir Reader 4" a lower rating than I gave the previous Film Noir Readers, because it is overwhelmed by the sort of absurd ideological readings that I haven't heard this much of since I studied film in college. The reader can't get far without running into dogmatic -and, I might add, eternally ill-defined- terminology like "patriarchal capitalism" and "misogyny". For grown persons to legitimize their socio-economic hang-ups by deliberately misrepresenting 60-year-old movies is pitiful. I am reminded of the reason director Fritz Lang left Germany: The Nazi Party liked his films so much that they offered Lang the opportunity to run the German film industry. His films were anti-fascist. Anyway, there are some good, informative, essays in "Film Noir Reader 4", and it's useful to present different interpretations. But these aren't so different, and I get the impression of scraping the bottom of the barrel.
The Persistence of Film Noir Style.......2005-02-06
This is the fourth reader in a series previously reviewed by me...I never thought the editors could find another 23 articles on "film noir," but they have successfully put together a new book organized in two parts: Case Studies and Noir Themes.
The "Case Studies" section deals with essential film noirs like DOUBLE INDEMNITY, DETOUR, THE UNSUSPECTED & TOUCH OF EVIL. The articles are written by well-respected "noir" critics; but the second section on Noir Themes is far more fascinating, especially the article by Nicolas Saada, "Noir Style in Hollywood."
There are two major errors in the text: (1) in a photo from ASPHALT JUNGLE, it is Marc Lawrence as Cobby in the background, not Anthony Caruso and in OX-BOW INCIDENT, it is Henry Morgan, not Frank who plays Art.
Otherwise, I would certainly include this book in a list of related readings in any noir course that I teach. I have taught NOIR STYLE at Columbia University and CUNY, using my own book, NOIR, NOW & THEN (Greenwood Press, 2001) as the main text and have used all the FILM NOIR READERS in my courses.
I would like to dedicated this review to Charles P. Mitchell who passed away suddenly this past January at the age of 55. He was an excellent noir scholar with a critical acumen and sense of humor that will be missed. His wife still runs their DARKER IMAGES VIDEO business in Millinocket, Maine, tracking down VHS & DVD recordings of the most elusive of noir films.
Ronald Schwartz at noir1937@aol.com
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This book is not concerned with the technical side of music, but with a side of music that is unsuspected by the reading public and musicians themselves. When two unseemingly unrelated branches of human activity are brought into conjunction, facts may come to light which may add to the sum total of knowledge, while tending to materially alter previous conceptions. Contents: preliminary; biographical, analytical, aesthetical; esoteric consideration, the music of the deva or nature spirit evolution; historical; some occult prognostications.
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Who knows Cyril Scott.......2000-10-19
Who knows Cyril Scott Seems that the entire musical and literary work of Cyril Scott is a strong and simple thrust of "returning home" . But he wrote and composed during XX century, which moste precious objective was to " run forward". Nobody knows where. Just, purely, run forward. Such was the idea of all to many modern artists. That was not the idea of Cyril Scott. Therefore, he had a problem. How to compose music that "returned home", during the XX's century? How to creat something vivid, full of art-in-tension? Mozart, Beethoven and Wagner had metaforaly for some, literary for others - achieved this, using all "available quality". Nothing could besaid afterwards. Seemed as if the ray of music had completed it's journey. That is the reason why Cyril Scott music is, in a certain way, heroic. Not in tone, not in harmony, but in spiritual intention. We suspect that during the turn of XIX century to XX century, this iman was changed, by not-seen hands. And that Scott and few others simply registered the change. They only had to let the metal particles fall on to the white sheet of paper.
Who Knows Cyril Scott.......2000-10-19
Seems that the entire musical and literary work of Cyril Scott is a strong and simple thrust of "returning home" . But he wrote and composed during XX century, which moste precious objective was to " run forward". Nobody knows where. Just, purely, run forward. Such was the idea of all to many modern artists. That was not the idea of Cyril Scott. Therefore, he had a problem. How to compose music that "returned home", during the XX's century? How to creat something vivid, full of art-in-tension? Mozart, Beethoven and Wagner had metaforaly for some, literary for others - achieved this, using all "available quality". Nothing could besaid afterwards. Seemed as if the ray of music had completed it's journey. That is the reason why Cyril Scott music is, in a certain way, heroic. Not in tone, not in harmony, but in spiritual intention. We suspect that during the turn of XIX century to XX century, this iman was changed, by not-seen hands. And that Scott and few others simply registered the change. They only had to let the metal particles fall on to the white sheet of paper.
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Crossword fans rejoice! Here's a collection of puzzles designed to boggle your brain, stimulate your solving skills, and engage and entertain you for hours. Test your knowledge of trivia, history, pop culture, vocabulary, and literature, and see if you can decipher clever clues, playful puns, and tricky twists. You'll need to keep historical context in mind when you try your hand at a selection of classics from the 1950s and 1960s. Test your mettle against contemporary champions with puzzles that were worked out under tournament conditions by three top solvers. See if you're championship caliber by comparing your times with theirs--although just finishing these puzzles is an accomplishment of which to be proud. Exercise your mind with theme puzzles created by some of the most talented crossword constructors around. A soft cover and spiral binding make it easy to settle in with your chosen puzzle, and all solutions are included.
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Mixed Bag.......2006-02-19
I'm not a champion crossword puzzle solver so some of these are ridiculously hard for me. I prefer the straight ahead puzzles without gimmicky tricks. Many of these puzzles are from the '50s and '60s so they meet my criteria (especially since I grew up in that era). A number of them, however, are way too hard for me or else too cute (e.g. answers where one of the letters is incorrect, etc.). I would have rated it a "3" for me but I realize that many people want variety so I gave it a "4".
A must for the crossword puzzle addict.......2003-09-10
A crossword puzzle is generally built by following an overall theme, whether it is modern pop culture, geography, politics, history or basic vocabulary. This collection of crossword puzzles is different, in that it is a combination of all of them, being composed of four separate collections.
The puzzles of the first collection were taken from magazines published in the `50s and `60s, and none of the clues have been updated to reflect changes. Therefore, a clue such as "Mild expletive" must be interpreted in that context. References to political and entertainment celebrities also must be examined in a historical light.
Puzzles in the second section were all taken from the U.S. Airways in-flight magazine "Attache", which debuted in 1997. The third section is made up of puzzles that were given to top crossword experts under tournament conditions. Much more difficult than the others, this group of puzzles will stretch your capabilities to the limits.
The fourth and final section is also made up of puzzles that were created in the `50s and `60s. As was the case with the first set, it is best to think twice before responding, as you may be thinking fifty years after the fact. Solutions to all of the puzzles are included, so you have everything you need to pit yourself against the experts and time as you try to solve these mind straining crosswords.
The crossword puzzle page of newspapers is generally one of the most popular pages in each issue. Properly done, they are challenging, frustrating and yet fun to do. The puzzles in this collection certainly fit that description.
Cox, Rathvon, Carlton, and Newgate have done it again!!.......2003-08-07
Cox, Rathvon, Carlton, and Newgate have shown once more that they produce the best crossword books in the puzzle biz. When is their next book coming out?
Well worth the cost........2003-04-11
If you like crosswords that are fun to do without resorting to stacks of reference materials, then this book is for you. Lots and lots of clever puzzels you can complete in an hour or so. One word of advice : take the first 70 or so puzzels and give them to someone just beginning to do crosswords as I found them too easy to enjoy. The other 200+ puzzels were great. These crosswords are not the brain twisters from the New York Times which require experience, determination, and research to complete. These puzzels are challenging without being frustrating. Give it a try.
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A huge collection of crossword puzzles at a great price.
Test your knowledge of trivia, history, pop culture, vocabulary, and literature, and see if you can decipher clever clues, playful puns, and tricky twists. You’ll need to keep historical context in mind when you try your hand at a selection of classics from the 1950s and 1960s. Test your mettle against contemporary champions with puzzles that were worked out under tournament conditions by three top solvers. See if you’re championship caliber by comparing your times with theirs—although just finishing these puzzles is an accomplishment of which to be proud. Exercise your mind with theme puzzles created by some of the most talented crossword constructors around. A soft cover and spiral binding make it easy to settle in with your chosen puzzle, and all solutions are included.
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Great crosswords!.......2004-04-09
These crosswords remind me of the high quality I used to see at the Tuesday night club. Great! Can't wait for Volume III!
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Television and the Red Menace: The Video Road to Vietnam
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